Ukraine sticks to Crimea – Putin offers agreement on the front

Before talks of western ally in London, the Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj categorically excludes areas of the Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj. “There is nothing to talk about. That is outside of our constitution,” said the head of state in Kiev with a view to the Ukrainian areas annexed by Russia such as the Black Sea Peninsula Crimea. According to media reports, Ukrainian regional detections to Russia are at least the subject of talks between Washington and Moscow.

Foreign Minister as well as security advisors of the United States, several European allies and Ukraine want to continue their consultations in London today about the end of the Russian war of attack. There had been a similar meeting in Paris last week. US President Donald Trump and Foreign Minister Marco Rubio then threatened that Washington could set his efforts to make peace if an agreement would not come soon.

According to a report by the “Wall Street Journal”, the White House expects a reaction from Kiev to Moscow’s concessions at the talks in London. According to this, Ukraine should not only access NATO, but also to avoid the Crimea peninsula, which was annexed by Russia in 2014. If there is green light from Kiev, the plans could be presented Moscow, the report says.

Meanwhile, Kremlin boss Vladimir Putin offered to stop the invasion in Ukraine on the current front line. As the newspaper continued to report on three people familiar with the conversations, Russia could do without claims to the parts of the four occupied Ukrainian regions that Kiev still has under control. The parts already under Russian control are to be struck Russia.

According to “Washington Post”, the United States also proposes to freeze the current front lines as part of a peace agreement. In return, Russia would end the attacks in Ukraine at a moment when the Russian military was on the rise.

Under Trump, the United States has a sharp change of course and are no longer ready to support Ukraine in the long term in its defensive fight against the Russian invasion. Washington mainly exerts pressure on Kiev to achieve a quick peace. Ukraine has been defending itself against a Russian invasion for more than three years. The Crimea was annexed by Russia in 2014.

Contrary to the first reports, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will not be at the meeting, as the spokeswoman for his ministry said. Accordingly, the US special envoy Keith Kellogg participates as planned. It remained unclear whether the US specialist Steve Witkoff was coming. Germany is represented in London by the Federal Chancellor’s foreign and security policy consultant, Jens Plötner, and the political director in the Federal Foreign Office, Günter Sautter.

The host is the British Foreign Minister David Lammy. It is expected that the Ukrainian delegation will be led by the head of the President’s Office, Andrij Jermak, similar to the previously. The journey is also expected by Foreign Minister Andrij Sybiha and Defense Minister Rustem Umjerow. A confirmation of this was initially pending.

Selenskyj said on Tuesday with a view to his delegation: “Tomorrow she has a mandate for the discussion of an unconditional ceasefire or a partial weapon rest.” Ukraine is ready. However, Ukraine will not legally recognize the Russian annexation of the Crimea and other Ukrainian areas. This was the area of ​​the Ukrainian people, and as president, he has already stated several times that there could be no recognition of Russian sovereignty over these territories.

At the same time, Selenskyj was ready to agree with Russia again. “Ukraine is ready for unconditional ceasefire, and if this ceasefire is partially, we are ready for mirror -image measures,” said the head of state. As examples, he cited the waiver of attacks on energy systems or the use of far -reaching weapons.

For Selenskyj, the ceasefire, which has been called out by Russia around the past Easter Sunday, is a proof that it only depends on Moscow to reduce the fire. “But it is still very far to an unconditional ceasefire,” emphasized the president.

The US specialist Witkoff wants to travel to Moscow again in the coming days to advise Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin about the end of the Russian war of attack. The spokeswoman for the White House, Karoline Leavitt, announced such a conversation for “later this week”. Witkoff had spoken to Putin personally several times in the past and, after the interviews, always spoke strikingly positive about the Russian president.

Russian fight drones attacked destinations in Ukraine in the evening. Media reported on fire about fires in the South Ukrainian port city of Odessa and in the Central Luckrainian Poltaawa. According to the authorities, at least two people were injured in Odessa.

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